Posted December 7, 2015 3:15 pm by Comments

By John Linder

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 3, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

There is something unseemly about using tragedy to pursue a political agenda, but the San Bernardino massacre provided an opening that was too good to resist. The killing in San Bernardino was actually all about … wait for it … guns.

You could hear the excitement in their voices. They found an entirely new angle to talk about guns. Before the bodies of all the victims were even identified, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest tied guns to the No-Fly List.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 3, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM

President Barack Obama used his Saturday address to double down.

“Right now, people on the No-Fly list can walk into a store and buy a gun. That is insane. If you’re too dangerous to board a plane, you’re too dangerous, by definition, to buy a gun.”

The president repeated the refrain during his Oval Office speech Sunday night. It was the only new policy recommended for fighting domestic terrorism.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cali.) agreed: “When a terrorist who can’t board an airplane can buy an assault rifle in a gun store, that’s a problem.”

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Source:: The Blaze

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